Henri Poincaré

male, deceased (1912)
Relativists, eidetic memory, Chaos theorist, principle of relativity, topologist, three-body problem…topology
Jules Henri Poincaré was one of France's greatest mathematicians and theoretical physicists, and a philosopher of science. Poincaré is often de...
John von Neumann

John von Neumann

male, deceased (1957)
genius, universal constructor, convert to Roman Catholicism, Pancreatic cancer death, Bone cancer death, American…topology
John von Neumann (born Margittai Neumann János Lajos on December 28, 1903 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary; died February 8, 1957 in Washington D.C., U...
Leonhard Euler

Leonhard Euler

male, deceased (1783)
blind, mathematician, most prolific mathematician, number theory, oiler, mathematical analysis…topology
Leonhard Euler , the most prolific mathematician of all time, wrote more than 500 books and papers during his lifetime about 800 pages per year...
Janna Levin

Janna Levin

female, 41 years old
Barnard College alumni, black hole, fractals, topology, Barnard College, Janna J. Levin
Janna J. Levin (born 1967) is a theoretical cosmologist. She holds a PhD in Theoretical Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
Jean-Pierre Serre

Jean-Pierre Serre

male, 83 years old
Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Abel Prize, mathematician, Fields Medalist, Erdős number 2, topologist…topology
Jean-Pierre Serre (born September 15, 1926) is one of the leading mathematicians of the twentieth century, active in algebraic geometry, number...
Stephen Smale

Stephen Smale

male, 79 years old (Flint, Michigan, United States)
University of Chicago, nuclear physics, National Medal of Science recipient, Erdős number 4, Wolf Prize recipient, Poincaré conjecture…topology
Stephen Smale (born July 15, 1930) is an American mathematician from Flint, Michigan, and winner of the Fields Medal in 1966. He entered the...

James Munkres

male
University of Michigan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, mathematician, Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty, mathematics, MIT…topology
James Raymond Munkres is a Professor Emeritus of mathematics at MIT and the author of a major textbook, "Topology". He received his Ph.D. from the...

John Morgan

male
Columbia University, Erdős number 3, topologist, topology, geometry, American
John Willard Morgan is an American mathematician, well-known for his contributions to topology and geometry. He is currently Professor and Chair of...
David Eisenbud

David Eisenbud

male, 62 years old (Berkeley, California, United States)
Harvard University, Erdős number 2, University of California, Berkeley faculty, MSRI, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, commutative algebra…topology
David Eisenbud (born 8 April, 1947) is an American mathematician. He is currently Director of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute and a...
Alfred Tarski

Alfred Tarski

male, deceased (1983)
Polish-American, mathematical model, University of California, Berkeley, Warsaw University alumni, model, logic…topology
Alfred Tarski (January 14, 1902, Warsaw, Russian-ruled Poland – October 26, 1983, Berkeley, California) was a logician and mathematician who sp...